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The Wessex Formation forms part of the Wealden Group within the Wessex Basin, an area of subsidence since Permo - Triassic times. The basin is located along southern half of the Isle of Wight and Purbeck, extending offshore into the English Channel. The Wealden Group is also exposed significantly in the Weald Basin, which has a separate ...
Kingdom of Wessex. The Gewisse ( Old English: [jeˈwisːe] ye-WEES-se; Latin: Geuissæ) were a tribe or ruling clan of the Anglo-Saxons. Their first location, mentioned in early medieval sources was the upper Thames region, around Dorchester on Thames. [1] However, some scholars suggest that the Gewisse had origins among the ancient Britons at ...
Wessex. The Kingdom of the West Saxons, also known as the Kingdom of Wessex, was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in the south of Great Britain, from around 519 until England was unified in 927. The Anglo-Saxons believed that Wessex was founded by Cerdic and Cynric of the Gewisse, though this is considered by some to be a legend.
The Wessex Constitutional Convention is an all-party pressure group, in the United Kingdom, devoted to pursuing a degree of self-government for Wessex. It has the following stated aims: To achieve the broadest consensus on the form of self-government appropriate for Wessex.
The Wessex culture is the predominant prehistoric culture of central and southern Britain during the early Bronze Age, originally defined by the British archaeologist Stuart Piggott in 1938. [1] The culture is related to the Hilversum culture of the southern Netherlands, Belgium and northern France, and linked to the Armorican Tumulus culture ...
Ceol is portrayed as the founding member of a sub-house of the House of Wessex which would rule Wessex from 591 – 645, 648 – 674 and from 676 – 685, comprising Ceol, Ceolwulf, Cynegils, Cenwalh, Seaxburh and Centwine. Coenwulf and Ceolwulf I of Mercia are also claimed to be descendants of Ceol, meaning that the Ceolian line flourished for ...
King of Wessex (King of the Gewissae) 534 to 560. Cynric. Son, or according to some sources grandson, of Cerdic. 560 to 591. Ceawlin. Son of Cynric. Possibly Celtic, Brythonic, name. 591 to 597.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will turn over his duties temporarily on Friday while he undergoes a non-surgical procedure related to his previously reported bladder ...
First edition cover. Wessex Poems and Other Verses (often referred to simply as Wessex Poems) is a collection of fifty-one poems set against the bleak and forbidding Dorset landscape by English writer Thomas Hardy. It was first published in London and New York in 1898 by Harper Brothers, and contained a number of illustrations by the author ...
A wyvern is the logo of the Swiss chocolate manufacturer Lindt. A wyvern is the emblem of East London Rugby Football Club. Wyvern is the a nickname of a fictional aircraft in the Ace Combat series: the X-02 Wyvern. A wyvern is the emblem of Old Wesley R.F.C. A wyvern is contained in the emblem of Ternana Calcio.